 | | going out of business why don't these satellite companies just close up shop. Their prices are too high for what you get. Mobile Broadband is better any way. | |
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 |  BF69Premium
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Camden, TN | Re: going out of business said by jchambers28:why don't these satellite companies just close up shop. Their prices are too high for what you get. Mobile Broadband is better any way.
Both suck actually
Verizon LTE $80 get you 10 GB a month and $10 per GB overage.
Hughesnet $80 gets you 300 MB a day( 9 GB a month ) throttled to half dial-up speed if you go over. They do however have a 5 hour cap free window per day between 2 AM and 7 AM EST. | |
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| | | | Re: going out of business But it's better than nothing. I would use millenicom's unlimited plan I know it's expensive at least it's unlimited with no throttling or caps. | |
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| | | | People who have no other option than satellite "high speed" internet are not likely to be seeing LTE coverage any time soon. | |
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| | | | | Re: going out of business People who have no other option than satellite "high speed" internet are not likely to be seeing LTE coverage any time soon. But you're right, the low caps on LTE would suck as a fixed wireless option as well. | |
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| | | BF69Premium
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Camden, TN | said by LostInWoods:People who have no other option than satellite "high speed" internet are not likely to be seeing LTE coverage any time soon.
Verizon will have all it's areas covered in 2 years. | |
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Appleton, WI
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| Re: going out of business Be careful....their coverage area does not cover EVERY person in the US. I can tell you that I am a Verizon customer and can't use my cell in my home. LTE will have an even smaller footprint, so unless they are planning to build a ton of towers, it will get worse.
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| | | | It begs the question why doesn't Verizon also have a cap free window? | |
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|  tshirtPremium,MVM
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1 edit | said by jchambers28:why don't these satellite companies just close up shop. Their prices are too high for what you get. Mobile Broadband is better any way.
Because for people not yet covered by other internet access methods, something is better than nothing, even at what seems to be outragous terms, for users with better access.
The consumer pricing is realistic based on the hardware investment.
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| | | | Re: going out of business dial-up > satellite | |
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Cambridge, NY | Re: going out of business Either you have no idea what you are talking about or you had an unusually bad experience with satellite internet. I usually get close to 1.5 megabit downloads and 200 kb uploads.
HN is much better than dial-up, but not as good as wired alternatives such as dsl or cable. We only subscribe to it because dsl and cable are not available.
It's safe to assume that anyone who subscribes to HN has already tried dial-up and has decided that HN is better.
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| | | | | | Re: going out of business What tier do you subscribe to in order to get 1.5/.2? | |
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|  dbirdmanPremium,MVM
join:2003-07-07
usa
kudos:5 | said by jchambers28:why don't these satellite companies just close up shop. Their prices are too high for what you get. Mobile Broadband is better any way.
I am a true mobile user, and I have it all. Verizon air card in a Cradlepoint attached to amp and external antenna (particularly useful with a hardware-based VPN), Droid tethered, 2 satellite services (Hughes and iDirect), and WiFi wherever I can get it. I have criss-crossed America steadily East/West and North/South, and I'm never without a connection, but I have often been without the cell service. If I had to live permanently in one of those places I would probably feel great resentment against those who tell me that I should just use Mobile Broadband, to which I would answer "What Mobile Broadband?"
People who live where service is good just don't get how truly vast our nation is, or what some of the topography is like.
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|  TexasPlusDon't Blame Me I Voted For The AmericanPremium
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Bedford, TX | said by jchambers28:why don't these satellite companies just close up shop. Their prices are too high for what you get. Mobile Broadband is better any way.
Because they cover almost the whole globe, not just land areas with a high population density.
They are most likely the ONLY way one can get an internet connection if you are sailing an ocean, crossing a desert, live on a small island in the Caribbean, etc etc.
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| | | | Re: going out of business Or in my case, a slightly rural area 30 miles south of St. Louis. Not exactly in the middle of nowhere.
But not enough population density where I am for companies to bother with... | |
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| | | Because, as others have mentioned, not everyone is covered by Mobile broadband.
Hughes.net is actually not that great at all, but it's better than dial-up and they are the only one that even wants to take my money. | |
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